CSI: Gervais

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CSI Gervais

• The Celebration

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Starring . . .
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Jonathon Pure Genius Belleque
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Ramiro Castillo Jesus Cheap Chief Espinoza
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Dr. Arnulfo Candybar Noodle Gonzalez
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Dr. Adan from the Middle East Marquez
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Pat Popcorn Tedprasith Tabitha Kewl Sargent
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Oscar Vela-Cabrera
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The story . . .
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• Whooooo! Hoooooo!
• Yeah! Thats right!
• Yeeeeeeeeah!
• Bring it on, Wildcats, and well win again!

Cougars
Wildcats
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• The atmosphere around Vince was electric. It
  seemed like everyone was screaming as loud as
  they could. Even he was getting into it.
• "We rock!" he called out, adding to the chaotic
  mix of sounds.

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• For early January, it was a warm night, and
  people packed the streets. It seemed like every
  fan that was at the game was out celebrating
  their come-from- behind victory. Plus, Mr.
  Manzettis Fine Italian Restaurant had guaranteed
  a free pasta feast for all comers if the home
  team won. The way Vince saw it, since everyone
  was already out celebrating, they all decided to
  show up and dig in.

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• Most of the shouting outside the restaurant was
  simply ongoing celebration, but occasionally
  tempers flared among people in line.
• Vince and his friends from college, Anna and
  Marcus, suspected that some fans had been
  "celebrating" too much.

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• After they had been waiting in the restaurant
  line for nearly 30 minutes, two gunshots suddenly
  went off, briefly silencing the crowd. At first
  some people didnt seem to know what had
  happened, but as soon as people figured out what
  they had heard, they started running in every
  direction, trying to find a place any place
  to duck for cover.

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• Police officers who were out patrolling the
  streets arrived quickly and calmed things down.
  They asked if anyone had been hurt. They also
  instructed everyone to stay in the area. Nobody
  seemed to be injured.
• Once things settled down, people immediately
  began to speculate about what had happened. It
  was obvious that there was a lot of confusion.
  Many seemed to think that what they had heard
  were simply big firecrackers. Others were sure
  they heard gunshots. Vince even heard someone
  suggest that it was an upset fan from the losing
  team.

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• Vince tried to remember exactly what he had
  seen. At the time of the shots he had
  instinctively turned toward the nearby cracking
  sounds and was pretty sure that he saw a couple
  of guys holding weapons up in the air. It looked
  to him like they were just shooting in the air,
  but he hadnt wanted to take any chances, so he
  scrambled for cover along with everyone else.
  Vince suddenly realized that in all of the chaos
  he got separated from Anna and Marcus.

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• Without too much difficulty he found Anna under
  one of the tables. Meanwhile, Marcus had jumped
  into a trashcan to hide. When Vince found him, he
  was covered in marinara sauce. The lasagna all
  over his head and face made it obvious that
  Marcus had escaped harm but not embarrassment.

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• "Nice look, Marcus," Vince laughed.
• After helping Marcus out of the trashcan, Vince
  wondered if he should talk to the cops, since he
  might have seen the guys who fired the shots.
  Vince wasnt sure, though, if he should get
  involved especially since he might be mistaken
  about who did it.

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• "Dude, you gotta talk to them," Anna said. "If
  you saw it, you could be on TV!" Vince was
  unconvinced, but after looking at Marcus, he
  realized that he did not want to go back to
  campus in the same car as "Marinara" Marcus, so
  he said hed see them tomorrow and went to talk
  to the police.

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• As the police were calming the crowd and
  speaking to witnesses, Mr. Manzetti barreled out
  of his restaurant with his son in tow. "He saw
  it! He saw it all! Frankie can point em all out!
  Every one of em!" Frankie didnt say a word. His
  father didnt really give him a chance. "Look at
  this mess! Everything was going great. Now
  everything is ruined!"

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• A couple of officers approached to try and calm
  Mr. Manzetti, but he continued to complain
  loudly, barely giving his son the chance to
  speak. By the time Frankie Manzetti was finally
  able to report some of what he had seen, Vince
  had approached another officer to tell her his
  story that he saw a group of five guys,
  probably in their late 20s or early 30s,
  hanging out together in the area where he thought
  the shots went off. She politely asked Vince to
  stay with her and wait for a detective, who
  pulled up a few minutes later.

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• "Vince, is it? Im Detective Fuentes, and Im
  hoping that you can help us get to the bottom of
  what happened. Officer Gaddy tells me you saw the
  guys who did it. So did they all have guns?
• "No," Vince replied, ". . . and Im not exactly
  sure which ones did. But I think that one of the
  guys the big one fired his gun. Sorry, but I
  just dont know about the others. It all happened
  so fast."

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• Detective Fuentes kept asking questions, hoping
  that at least one of them might trigger something
  in Vinces memory.
• "How many shots did you hear?. . . Were the
  shots fired BANG BANG one right after the other
  or was there a pause between them?"
• Vince tried to recall exactly what he had seen
  and heard, but all he could say for certain was
  that there were only two shots.

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• Next, Detective Fuentes moved on to question
  Frankie Manzetti about what he had seen. With his
  dad standing over him, Frankie told Detective
  Fuentes that he saw a bunch of guys, all shooting
  their guns together up in the air. Frankies
  account was somewhat similar to Vinces. "Yeah,
  there were, like, four or five guys . . .
  something like that."

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• "Where were you when the shooting took place?"
  asked the detective.
• Mr. Manzetti jumped into the conversation,
  screaming again. "What?! You think Frankie
  mightve done this?! You think hes a suspect?!"

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• "No. No, sir," Detective Fuentes said, trying to
  reassure Mr. Manzetti (and trying not to laugh).
  "We just want an idea of where Frankie was when
  the shots were fired, in order to get a sense of
  his perspective. Besides, right now, we would
  only consider someone a person of interest, not a
  suspect. Were just trying to find out what
  happened."

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• Mr. Manzetti didnt respond.
• "Oh," said Frankie, a little relieved. "I was
  in charge of the door, trying to keep order. You
  know how people get crazy whenever theres free
  food. I dont know . . . there was just something
  about that group. I could tell that they looked
  suspicious. Plus, that guy Wally comes in here
  all the time hes got a really bad temper. And
  he always tells me that I gotta lay off the
  breadsticks. He definitely shot a gun. Im really
  good at knowing whos bad and whos good. So I
  kept my eye on em, watching em like a vulture,
  you know what I mean?"

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• "Its a hawk, Frankie. A hawk," his father said,
  shaking his head.
• "So how many of them fired guns?" Detective
  Fuentes inquired.
• "I . . . dont know. All of em? No wait. Most
  of em."

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• "Are you sure about that?" Detective Fuentes
  asked, wondering if Vince might have been
  mistaken. "We have witnesses who say that there
  were only two shots.
• "Oh, yeah," Frankie acted like it was all coming
  back to him. "There were just, like, two shots.
  So . . . I guess only two of em did."

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• "And were you inside the door, or outside the
  door when the shots were fired?" the detective
  asked.
• "I was inside. But I mean I was outside too
  because I had the door half open checking people
  as they came in. I saw what happened!" Frankie
  declared.

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• When he finished speaking with Frankie,
  Detective Fuentes then questioned a few other
  people in the crowd to try to corroborate Vince
  and Frankies accounts.

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• In the meantime, the crime scene investigators
  were busy. No bullets could be found, but they
  did find a small hole in the awning outside Mr.
  Manzettis restaurant. The hole appeared to have
  been made by a bullet. When Mr. Manzetti heard
  that his awning had been damaged, he started
  shouting again, demanding that the police figure
  out who had fired the bullet so he could sue for
  damages.

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The Suspects . . .
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Jay Nofsinger

• Jay was the big guy that Vince had pointed out
  to investigators. He denied everything, but he
  did have a handgun on him. The handgun contained
  lead bullets with copper full metal jackets. He
  claimed that he carried a gun because he worked a
  third shift job at the meat packing plant and
  needed it for protection when he walked to his
  car in the parking lot. Jay had a prior
  conviction for theft.

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Rafe Wood

• Rafe appeared to be the guy that all of the
  others looked down on. Apparently he had no job
  and just hung around all the time. He claimed not
  to have shot a gun. He had a Glock on him, but
  said that it belonged to Reuel. Bullets in the
  gun were made of lead with brass jackets. Rafes
  trouble with the law included several misdemeanor
  offenses.

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Reuel Sprinkle

• Reuel said that he didnt really like the other
  guys because they carried their guns everywhere,
  which he disapproved of. After a bit of
  interrogation, he admitted that he and Jay were
  friends and worked the third shift together. As
  investigators began to expose holes in his story,
  Reuel also revealed that hed forced Rafe to take
  his gun after the shootings, but he insisted that
  he hadnt fired it. He just didnt want to be
  suspected as one of the shooters. Police learned
  that Reuels gun was unregistered and that he had
  pled guilty before to carrying an unregistered
  firearm.

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Simon Harger

• Simon was cool and collected with the police,
  not saying any more than he had to. His record
  showed that he had three prior convictions, all
  for firearms viola-tions. Simon maintained that
  he would never fire a gun with a crowd around.
  True to form, though, he was carrying a gun
  containing round-nosed lead bullets. Like Jay, he
  said he carried it for protection, but unlike
  Jay, Simon worked part-time delivering pizzas.

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Wally Taylor

• Wally didnt have a gun on him and said he
  didnt normally hang out with the other guys. He
  said that he recently met Simon through Simons
  brother, whom he works with at a landscaping
  company. He told police that as soon as the
  shooting started, he freaked out and tried to run
  away. He also claimed, however, that he didnt
  have a clue who had a gun or who fired a gun.
  When police learned from their records that Wally
  had an arrest warrant out for failure to appear
  in court, they had a hunch why Wally "freaked
  out" and tried to run away.

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The Crime Scene . . .
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The task . . .
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• You must build a case for who fired a gun with
  the bullet that damaged Mr. Manzetts awning.

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• Your boss is awaiting your report!!!
• Good Luck